I disagree about the build quality. It feels less lunky and more refined. It also feels more comfortable in the hand to me. I prefer the rubberized texture of the side. I dont care for the hard buttons on the ng and prefer the 1000 or 2000 but far. I like the backlight on the hard buttons with the surrounding light thats obviously intentional. Try using them without looking though...good luck. Another qualm: I thought with the usb connection uploads and downloads would be MUCH faster. I was wrong. Where the light sensor is at the top looks like shit. It almost looks as if its broken. And why the hell do you have to use the side buttons to flip through pages?